skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon and Uber are definitely different, but in 2003 Amazon's market cap was about $21B, or ~$36B in today's dollars. Uber is actually bigger than that in value today (~$144.11B).

Amazon was far from a dominant player in 2003, and AWS wasn't launched publicly until 2006.

From a product standpoint, as others have stated, Uber is a real-time services marketplace vs Amazon which is more about physical goods (again, excluding AWS, which is technically a service). Most of their value is putting all the work into the ground to keep the marketplace balanced, which is a tricky marketing and econometrics problem. One need not look farther than Lyft to see how hard it is to keep the "5 minutes away or less" guarantee.

Also to those who think the app is a non-trivial technical achievement, I would recommend reading some of the blog posts that go into some of the crazy technical challenges they hit [1]. Specifically in some cases, in order to make the app work in all geo's, they ran up against practical limits to binary size at Apple. Not to mention that geo / waypoint data is a genuine "big-data" problem and not easily reproduced by just any company.

[1] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/uber-app-rewrite-yolo/
Show HN: Markdown-pages.js – Markdown-based static sites, without a generator
I had originally done this as a set of template files, but found that a small JS library was more reusable. Basically, it will render HTML pages from Markdown files using only client-side JavaScript (AJAX requests, Showdown JS) unlike traditional static site generators that use a build process.
Diversity of nutrition sources rather than centralized nutrition from a single staple makes a lot of sense.
Not true. As technology goes forward and big companies get bigger, the role of individual contributors becomes less and less impactful on the overall performance of the business. At the end of the day all these processes, or at least most of them, are there for a reason: avoiding a collapse if Mr. 200IQ leaves and an average competent employee is hired in their position.

IMHO the trend is going in the opposite direction: people with extraordinary talents find that their place in society is shrinking, as workplaces become more and more like average salary factories.
The Glamorous Toolkit crew have been doing some amazing stuff in terms of having multiple heavily custom type-specialised inspectors, and while being ST based they're much more GUI focused than REPL focused I think it's not unreasonable to say it's the same spirit, but ST style rather than Lisp style.

(for those following along at home, Interlisp was a work of art and I cached a couple of the relevant manuals under https://trout.me.uk/lisp/ so I didn't keep having to go find them yet again to re-read for inspiration)
If your US employer tries to foist the nonsense M-B on you, refuse and tell them it’s an ADA violation. That should stop them in their tracks. You don’t need to explain or provide evidence of your mental illness or disability.
Try to switch models to something other than tinyllama (default only because it’s the fastest to load). Mistral and Llama 3 are great.
Apparently this is called geophagia, see this comment further down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40242839
> Not sure it is worth the effort, because every time a new framework is introduced the results generated by AI will be of low quality until the models get trained on exaples written by humans... What's the point of using AI in that case?

LLMs will not replace us, they just take some of the tedium out of writing code. Yes, they will have to be trained on new frameworks and languages but I don’t see that as a problem. People have to wait for SO questions and blog posts to be written about new frameworks and languages as it stands today.

I’m not sure I agree with your arguments about needing a lot of devs to understand assembly or the like. Or rather I disagree with your prediction of where that leads. We are effectively already there and it hasn’t led to your future. We have an amazing open source ecosystem and that billions of people rely on daily without knowing how every part of it works. Open source has only grown during that time.

I’ve never done the math myself for calculating the distance between 2 points on a globe. I just grab the Haversine formula and keep going. I don’t see that as a problem. Similarly I’ll reach for an open source library to solve a boring problem instead of doing it myself. I quite literally see no difference in that and using an LLM.
...I think it would be a great idea to graft on a LlamaIndex module here so we can use this local browser LLM to talk to our local documentation https://docs.llamaindex.ai/en/stable/
> The problem is, SO can't tell someone who asks an insane question from someone who asks the same question but has constraints that make it sane.

Stack Overflow is not there to help you solve your use-case. It's there to create a body of knowledge that everyone can refer to. You need to spell out your specific reasons so that the question and answers become useful to others.

A lot of the friction on Stack Overflow comes from people thinking it's a free help website rather than an attempt to create a collaborative knowledgebase.
More like if AI leads to spam or if guns kill people.

The latter one is harder if you only have a knife instead of an assault rifle.
The context heads of a LLM are more analogous to the sort of processing that goes on in, e.g., Brocca's Area of your brain as opposed to working memory. You can't have anything analogous to working memory as long as LLMs are operating on a strict feed forward basis[1]. And the fact that LLMs can talk so fluently without anything like a human working memory (yet) is a bit terrifying.

[1] Technically LLMs do have a forget that last toke and go back so I can try again operation so this is only 99% true.
He parked it in the streets.

*Parked* is probably where it was most comfortable.

Apparently there was a 15 step ritual or something like that needed to get it to fire up.

Kinda like trying to coax the graphics to match the max. resolution of a wide screen monitor with an open source OS.

And then if you do any updates you may be greeted with the opportunity to try it all over again.

https://freelinuxtutorials.com/configuring-ubuntu-linux-for-...
GitHub repo: https://github.com/dandalpiaz/markdown-pages
I’m in therapy right now and it’s hard not to see it as some sort of cluster-b discard cycle fable.
It's a perfectly reasonable position to not give them your money. I thought we were talking about pirating their games though, which is worlds apart from voting with your wallet.
> Software is so thoroughly corrupted by the low-trust managerial paradigm

They were certainly very good at coopting the agile „movement“ in this manner.
It's more of a measure against competitor sellers than against farmers.
Vaclav Smil:"To have an electric ship whose batteries and motors weighed no more than the fuel (about 5,000 tons) and the diesel engine (about 2,000 tons) in today’s large container vessels, we would need batteries with an energy density more than 10 times as high as today’s best Li-ion units. But that’s a tall order indeed: in the past 70 years, the energy density of the best commercial batteries has not even quadrupled." https://www.cupofinsights.com/post/vaclav-smil-numbers-don-t...
A good article. And then below it? Links to the usual leetcode-style questions that have little to do with job performance: invert a left-handed negative tree, etc. How about: figure out why that critical cloud function silently fails 0.1% of the time?
>From a hacker/researcher perspective: this is really cool.

>From a user perspective: I hate this.

This sums up by opinions about LLMs in general. And I don't look forward to the inevitable future where corporations are doing what OP did, at scale, across all forms of media.
Which is why it stops being an issue after, what, 2 days ? And most editor also have an autoswap feature for when you have a brain fart because since the language now had proper type hint there is no possibility to misplace a scalar and an array.
> Why hallucinate anything at all when it is not a necessary component of functioning?

LLMs may be demonstrating that hallucination is indeed a necessary component of at least one kind of thinking.
Can you elaborate how not wanting you to pirate the games they spent tons of money and labor in making is "rent-seeking" and a restriction on free speech? It seems like a stretch.

"This just happens to be a transparently egregious example, as they are literally trying to censor a FOSS project and make its contributors' speech invisible / illegal"

Give me a break. The only reason this software was FOSS, was for the creators to receive protection from useful idiots like you. We all know that the purpose of this project was to profit from piracy.
Ai copilots are taking raw non measured code and treating as all equal to each other....its about like taking a few answers from A students and a whole lot of answers from D students and will only produce a sh*t-stained result.

Its emphatically why I do not use any AI in my VSCode IDE...as you cannot trust the damn evaluation where each raw input is treated as the same every other input...

We devs use the same damn reasoning for developing a special set of lint rules as those pertain to the exp of coding and what things we want intended in our code constructs according best practices...

In short words, fluency is practice in both mistakes and corrections....there emphatically is no other way towards code fluency!
> All of the tech industry is about standing on the shoulders of giants

This is true, but we still do have to have at least some knowledge of what those giants built. Otherwise we're actually just standing on clouds
StreamDiffusion in .NET for interactive real-time image generation [video]
Oh I would agree but Javascript is anything BUT stable in its environnement and frameworks etc... Trying to update a one year old php code base with composer means no issue at the end in 99% of the time.

Javascript's ecosystem is not anywhere that yet.
You are philosophically correct but the flaw with this argument is time and $$$. With each passing year millions of people around the world die or go blind from vitamin A deficiency. Most of these cases are due to an over-reliance on white rice in particular, making golden rice essentially a drop-in solution for much of the world’s poorest. The goal is (or should be) to stop the bleeding with golden rice while also investing in and providing education around more diverse agricultural production.
Programma 900 [video]
U.S. vs. Google: As landmark monopoly trial closes, here's what to look for
> If I was the same kid now, I'd get into a bootcamp or self teach and get a web dev job because the money is lucrative. Yeah sure, maybe i'll dabble in foundationa litems here and there, but most won't. It doesn't advance your career in web/software.

That sure sounds like it has nothing to do with LLMs and everything to do with factors not all related to even computer science. “Capitalism” or maybe the more trendy “late-stage capitalism” is probably more to blame here than anything else.

Also I reject the idea that there are no kids today that get involved in tech/computers for the joy of learning/exploration.

I bristle whenever I see arguments about “kids these days didn’t learn exactly how I did so it must be wrong”. It reeks of “old man yells at cloud” (note, I was also a 90’s kid). It’s the same BS I heard as a kid about how computers would rot your brain or they were horrible for <insert stupid prediction that didn’t come true>.
That's interesting, I always assumed the brakes would be MORE reliable because there's essentially no wear on the brake pads.
Syntax, predicates, idioms – what affects code complexity? (2018)
Also any patents expire in 20 years, and most are approaching their EOL.
Glow of an exoplanet may be from starlight reflecting off liquid iron
My Journey Inside the Voice Clone Factory
Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents
> required the government to follow the so-called precautionary principle

Someone should make a version of the meme with the death going door to door with a bloodied scythe but with the figure of nassim taleb instead.
I ran a BBS and Fidonet node (2:5077/7) from 1994 till 2001, I was 17 when I started. At that time I worked as an operator at local "computer centre" (вычислительный центр) and used their resources, namely multilined (8 lines) phone line, 8 US Robotics Courier modems and dedicated 386 PC. It ran OS/2, Binkley/2 mailer and Maximus/2 BBS. Also this box served as local file server (IBM LAN Server) and performed some remote file sharing for "work" purposes, to justify the need for BBS. :)

There were other BBSs in the area, but mine appeared to be the largest. I recall, there were 2000+ users which was quite a lot for the area. Some of them are still my good friends.

By running BBS, I learned telecom technology, TCP/IP and networking. I became sysadmin and worked for local ISPs, then as network architect and system/network software developer.
Or he just got an infection. How do you think they MRSA into his lungs? Not even Putin can pull off an execution that slick with a chemical weapons lab.
These were from a while ago but the article implied they were new which they are not. Details at
https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/v2.6.10/Changes.rst
How did they solve the problem of MIUI killing background apps? How did they get it to activate without any other user interaction? How did they replace the default Google assistant?
You had to reboot your system every week because you tried a container?
There is a larger discussion on HN already
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40206729
What's the best laptop I could get for no more than £50?
The article has an excellent point about the seriousness of the research. 98% of what I read out of the "UFO Community" is bogus misidentifications and third hand stories.

But I would share a strong belief, made from decades now of watching reports that the "giggle factor" is intentional. It was a created effect of disinformation, and in the scientific community going back to Cordons intentional squashing of scientific inquiry.
At the time of that report, a survey found 60 some percent of scientists answered that investigation into UFOs was relevant, but only a few percent would be willing to say so publicly.

Some amount of that 98% of bullshit is created by the United States government to intentionally obscure any ability to determine the truth, and has been continuous since the 1950s when we know this strategy was actively adopted during the Truman administration.

And while I'm all for NASA focusing on other planets, I continue to wonder what truth is so valuable to spend so much energy obfuscating here on earth?
Reuse of existing business logic code. That’s what I do when reusing Swift or Go code in .NET.
> Being dimly aware that human beings had learned to tell the age of a tree by counting the rings, the original Counting Pines decided that this was why humans cut trees down.

> Overnight every Counting Pine readjusted its genetic code to produce, at about eye-level on its trunk, in pale letters, its precise age. Within a year they were felled almost into extinction by the ornamental house number plate industry, and only a very few survive in hard-to-reach areas.

Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
things can both be true and heartbreaking
I think people can see the other side (or have a foot in both) and make the life easier for other people. I mean, your point is valid for any company building tools to democratize an otherwise complex task (e.g. Squarespace like online site makers, any camera with an auto mode, automatic transmission cars etc.)

I still think we're seeing different work patterns in our fields, RMS getting his mail printed is the exception more than the rule, where no one would bat an eye at HSBC's CEO never opening a computer in his daily work (I don't know him, just a random example)
The toys are appealing even to children that never saw the anime.

Actually I wouldn't let my kids watch it until they were at least 13 or so, maybe more depending on the child. A lot of war and mass-scale death there, and frankly, a lot of adoration for fascism - the space nazis turn out to be right.
Do note that Zod is a bit of an outlier in how slow it can make type checking, e.g. https://dev.to/nicklucas/typescript-runtime-validators-and-d... one of the tests hits nearly 300ms, but no other library even touches 100ms.
At some level, isn't the whole exercise of characterizing the copying of bytes as "piracy" just a way to justify invasive state policy?

We can observe that the nature of information is that it is free to copy. This is not a new observation; the myth of Prometheus tells us of this nature, and of the power that the gods foolishly attempt to shore up by pretending that it can't be copied.

Of course I agree that solid games are worth money, but if you have to avert your eyes to the entire evolution of the way information propagates in the universe in order to achieve that, you've gone down an incorrect path.

And yes, building entire media empires designed to leverage your right to distribute bytes as you see fit, while prohibiting others from distributing them under threat of violence, is most certainly rent-seeking.

The silly fiction that someone "owns" that information because of a previous historical event is not in keeping with any part of nature that I'm able to observe.

What makes anyone think that on sufficiently long time scales the internet will continue to abide this?
You’re not wrong but this is akin to saying that we shouldn’t treat gunshot wounds because we need better gun control. We can do both.
"My thoughts and feelings about the art of X changed in Y ways when I learned about Z"

That's a comment in a conversation

"I went to the Wikipedia page of someone I hadn't heard of and pasted the first thing I saw in 'Controversies' into a thread"

That's a shitpost.

To take nothing from the art of shitposting, this is a random messageboard for conversations, not a random messageboard for shitposting.
Honestly, ouch -- I'm not even the person you replied to and I feel attacked somehow, haha!

You basically just said, "That guy's not all that smart, and if you think he is, take a hard look in the mirror!" Maybe you can say more about why you think his writing falls short and who you'd recommend to read as a counterpoint?
Your comment says 6 minutes ago but when I go to reply it says three days... And I do remember reading it three days ago

Does hacker News fudge timestamps on comments when it boosts a post?
That's Spanish, but wouldn't it be better to use the more common lanugage, Tagalog, to render it "hukuman ng Pilipinas"? If one were to insist in talking about foreign courts in foreign languages, rather than the language of the readers.
Not everywhere, even in the USA. I know there are small family farms that got busted for growing gmo seeds so it is worthwhile for some. Maybe not the big players.
Maybe because we have a vested interest in denying that animals have sentience and thus deserve to be treated like organisms that feel pain and sorrow?
EPA earmarks $3 billion to replace lead pipes nationwide
> It’s going to be ugly for a while

Why are we calling it ugly?
The correct spelling is in the linked article:

What a Philippine court ruling means for
transgenic Golden Rice, once hailed as a
dietary breakthrough

My comment was an appeal to just copy the actual link title. Perhaps people who did not click through and see the actual title are downvoting for some strange reason.

The quoted title should be as close to the original as possible, within the HN title size limit, and should certainly copy correctly spelled words.
Points for a great twisting of the metaphor I used, I quite like it.

I agree _someone_ has to have that knowledge, I reject they _everyone_ must have that knowledge.

I have zero desire to learn more about logic gates, they don’t interest me and while they enable me to do the work I do I don’t need to know about them to do the work. The same way that I couldn’t tell you how my car engines works (ok, at a high level I could, probably about the same level as I could talk about logic gates) but I’m able to drive from point A to point B without issue.

There are people who enjoy assembly, let them work on it. I’m not one of those people and I don’t have a problem with those people but I do have a problem with people who think I must know assembly to be an effective developer.
The universality of these truths I think is exemplified by the same principles being expressed by Sun Tzu and others.
Jokes on them, I can barely pass them when it is working as intended.
Yeah, I think OP's point is that nobody should be omitting braces in this day and age. Maybe there's a setting to force the use of braces too.
What a cool website!
Already here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40247604
Mecha fandom doesn't necessarily cross over with anime fandom (even though the former is arguably the origin of the latter). I find that there's more crossover with hobbyists (plastic models), military fandom, and gamers. Gundam is almost it's own thing (to Sunrise's simultaneous satisfaction and chagrin), and the Site Which Shall Not Be Named split a Mecha board off of the Anime board almost 2 decades ago. I don't know that the fandom will be represented on MAL, which is itself a niche service for the wider anime-watching community.

Suffice it to say, the multiple life-scale Gundam statues that have been put up/dismantled over the past few years speak to its enduring popularity. I will say that there haven't been as many non-Gundam mecha anime as there were in the 2010s. We did get G-Witch and Bravern last year, and Hathaway on Netflix in 2021. And, as someone said, AOT is essentially Meat Gundam.

EDIT: Also, I don't know that I'd even call 86 mainstream. It felt like it actually got way less recognition than it should have.
The mouse only reached self knowledge at the end. One should work on it sooner.
The richest man in India spent $120 million on a wedding. I agree with you that we should stop spending money on useless shit and taxing billionaires will help achieve our goal of not spending money on useless shit.
The Hidden-Pregnancy Experiment: Could I Hide My Pregnancy from My Phone?
Sure, but what I mean is 1. saying concious experience is just a hallucination implies something is being hallucinated. If there is no such thing as consciousness, how could we speak of it being a hallucination? Why would there be anything to have to explain in the first place?

2. LLMs hallucinate in the sense that they make up random, different ideas, which I agree is necessary for intelligence. In this case however, consciousness is something we all experience.
Yep. Webpack is absolutely terrible but still unfortunately seems to have a lot of mindshare.
They probably would if they could.
Why would I care how the changes came into being?